When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers' cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. But Gloriana, innocent to the brutal ways of the West, wanted to meet a real desperado. And when she did, Gloriana was the frightened captive of the most dangerous killer of the gang, and facing an ordeal that would...

Stephen Latch takes out his anger at the world by joining Indian raids on pioneer wagon trains. But in one train he finds his old sweetheart, whom he still loves.

Logan Huett thought he knew the West. Once a scout with the Army, he was familiar with both the hardships and rewards of pioneer life. But not even Logan could foresee the challenges that lay ahead for him and his young wife Lucinda--raising a brood of headstrong children, struggling to achieve financial security in the wilderness, concealing a long-buried family secret, and, finally, surviving the tragedy dealt them by a devastating war.

This novel is an expanded version of Open Range written by Zane Grey. Following Grey's death, his estate allowed a ghost writer to expand the story "Open Range" into a longer novel for publication and movie rights. The stories are very similar.

In New Mexico, Trueman Rock seeks to bring a rustling family to justice, but then he falls in love with the daughter.